Desktop Author is a publishing tool for authors/publishing houses looking to create great looking ebooks. The software offers WYSIWYG layout of magazines, brochures, photo albums, cards, and books optimized for screen presentation. Convert Digital Web Books into HTML layouts for Web presentation, without needing to do additional HTML coding. Integrate DRM and a payment gateway right in the book to give you a store right inside your publication. Pages turn with realistic 3D functionality, giving the Desktop Author Digital Web Book format a visual edge over PDF and LIT formatted digital text. Link to external Web pages inside the book, pop-up larger versions of images, and optimize text for onscreen reading. Desktop Author provides all the advantages of page layout features for print publishing with visual presentation meant for PC screens.
Publish to Web and built-in FTP upload
Integrated DRM and Payment Gateway
Compact file sizes for finished books
Automated system for creating digital photo albums
WYSIWYG page customization and editing
Built-in Image Browser, Image Editor, and Image Manipulator
Quick linking to Web sites, movies, and audio
Email to a friend feature
Survey generation using Easy Forms tool
Allow users to print pages or disable the print function
To see a sample of a Desktop Author created book, download the trial version of my Converting Vinyl LPs to CD guide. (I don’t care if you buy it, I’m just offering an example)